On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 11:31 +0200, Dirk Kirsten wrote: > So if you could point out some details as why this is not conforming > behaviour, this would be interesting.
It's a requirement in the XML Spec that the XML parser pass all whitespace back to the application. Some whitespace may be marked as not significant - that is only possible if there's a DTD and the space is in a context where only elements would be valid, not #PCDATA. There's no formal specification, although constructing an XDM instance from an infoset, and constructing an infoset from XML, does not entail discarding these spaces: Chopping internal whitespace nodes in mixed content contexts is not sanctioned by any version of any XML specification, with any setting of xml:space. I think the onus would be on you to justify the non-standard behaviour. On the other hand I can see its uses too. But I don't want it, and always turn it off with BaseX :-) Best, Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml _______________________________________________ BaseX-Talk mailing list BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk
